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Philosophy
- State University of New York at Binghamton
Instructor of Philosophy, 1967-1968 (One-Year Position)
Courses Taught: Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1968-1973
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 1973-1975
Courses Taught: American Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy,
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Marxism, German Idealism, Heidegger's
Being and Time, Hegel's Phenomenology of
Spirit, Existentialism, Philosophy of
Religion, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Science, Logic, Topics in
Philosophical Biology, Art and Technology, Aesthetics, Minds and Machines, Ethics.
Research Associate, 1975-1982
Editorial Work with Max Fisch on the new edition of Peirce's Writings at
Harvard and Texas Tech Universities.
Department of Philosophy, Visiting Scholar, 2001-2002
LAW
- Smitherman, Sacks, and Esposito
Attorney,1987-1991, Tucson, Arizona
Law Practice with Emphasis on Government Representation
- Law Offices of Joseph L. Esposito P.C.
Attorney, 1991 to present, Tucson,
Arizona.
Law Practice with Emphasis on Environmental Law, Civil Rights, and Public
Employment Law.
Licensed to Practice in Arizona State and Federal Courts, the Federal Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United
States Supreme Court.
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Publications
Books
- Schelling's Idealism and Philosophy of
Nature. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1977.
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- Evolutionary Metaphysics: The Development of Peirce's Theory of
Categories. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1980.
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- The Transcendence of History: Essays on the Evolution of Historical
Consciousness. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1983.
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- The Obsolete Self: Philosophical Dimensions of
Aging. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Articles
- "Death and Dasein," New
Frontiers, Vol. VIII, No. 3 (Summer, 1964), 43-55.
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- "God and the Possibility of Philosophy,"
International Journal for Philosophy of
Religion, Vol. III, No. 3 (Summer, 1972), 103-115.
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- "Criticizing Rationality as Criticism,"
The Journal of Critical Analysis, Vol. IV, No. 3 (Fall, 1972), 89-96.
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- "Synechism, Socialism, and Cybernetics,"
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society, Vol. IX, No. 2 (Spring, 1973), 63-78.
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- "Play and Possibility," Philosophy
Today, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer, 1974), 137-146.
Reprinted in Philosophic Inquiry In Sport
(2nd ed., 1995)
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- "Some Grounds for a Moral Criticism of Science,"
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XIII, No. 1 (Spring, 1975), 47-54.
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- "Remarks Toward a General Theory of Organization,"
International Journal of General Systems, Vol. II, No. 3 (1975), 133-143.
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- "Systems, Holons, and Persons," International Philosophical
Quarterly, Vol. XVI, No. 2 (June, 1976), 219-236.
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- "Hume and the Transcendental Idealists,"
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XIV,
No. 4 (Winter, 1976)
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- "On Getting the Sceptic to Heaven,"
International Journal for Philosophy of
Religion, Vol. VII, No. 1 (1976), 311-316.
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- "Peirce and Naturphilosophie," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society, Vol. XIII, No. 2 (Spring, 1977), 122-141.
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- "Science and Conceptual Relativism,"
Philosophical Studies, Vol. 31 (1977), 269-277.
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- "Is There a Semiocentric Predicament?"
Semiotica, Vol. 19, Nos. 3/4 (1977), 259-270.
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- "Semiotics and Philosophy at the International Peirce
Congress,"
Semiotica, Vol. 19 (1977), 355-366.
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- "Sellars and Scientific Idealism" Idealistic
Studies, Vol. 8 (1978), 40-61.
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- "Peirce and the Foundations of Semiotic,"
Peirce Studies, No. 1 (1979), 19-24.
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- "The Development of Peirce's Categories,"
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society, Vol. 15 (1979), 51-60.
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- "Reichenbach's Philosophy of Nature,"
Studies in the History and Philosophy of
Science, Vol. 10 (1979), 189-200.
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- "Peirce's Early Speculations on the Categories," in
Proceedings of the C. S. Peirce Bicentennial International
Congress. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1980.
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- "Hegel's Dialectical Logic: Categories and Interpretations,"
Nature and System, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1980), 123-134.
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- "Invention, Convention, and Necessity,"
Dialectica, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1980), 205-211.
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- "Teleological Causation," The Philosophical
Forum, Vol. 12 (Winter, 1980), 116-127.
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- "On the Question of the Foundations of Pragmaticism,"
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society, Vol. 17, No. 3 (1981), 259-268.
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- "Romantic Science and the Future of the Knowing Subject," in
The Limits of Lawfulness: Studies on the Scope and Nature of Scientific
Knowledge, edited by Nicholas Rescher, University Press of America, 1983: 69-76.
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- "Peirce and the Philosophy of History,"
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1983), 155-166.
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- "Hegel, Absolute Knowledge, and the End of History,"
Clio, Vol. 12 (Summer, 1983), 355-366.
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- "Peirce's Speculations on the Conditions of Representability,"
Semiotica, Vol. 49, Nos. 1/2 (1984), 259-270.
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- "Conceptual Problems in Theoretical Gerontology,"
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 4 (1983), 522-546.
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- "Peirce's Theory of Semiosis: Toward a Logic of Mutual Affection," Eight
Lectures, Semiotic Review of Books, Cyber-Semiotic Institure. Available
on-line (www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/cyber) through the University of Toronto, 1997-1999.
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- Entries for "Charles Sanders Peirce" and "Type/Token" for the
Encyclopedia of Semiotics, edited by Paul Bouissac, (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998)
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- "Synechism: The Keystone of Peirce's Metaphysics" and
"Virtuality,"Digital Encyclopedia of Charles S.
Peirce, ed. Joao Queiros, San Paulo, 2001.
Book Reviews
- "Signs and Species," review article of
Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays Presented to Thomas A.
Goudge, edited by L. W. Summer, J. G. Slater, and F. Wilson. University of
Toronto Press, 1981. Semiotica, Vol. 43, Nos. 3/4 (1983), 367-370.
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- Review of Alan White, Schelling: An Introduction to the System of
Freedom, Yale University Press, 1983. International Studies in
Philosophy, Vol. 17 (1985), 106-107.
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- Review of Studies in Logic, edited by Charles S. Peirce, in the Foundations of Semiotics
Series. Benjamins, 1983. Semiotica, Vol. Nos. 1/3 (1985), 165-167.
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- Review of Douglas R. Anderson, Creativity and the Philosophy of C. S.
Peirce, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), 153-156.
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- Review of Arthur E. Murphy, Reason, Reality, and Speculative
Philosophy, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter
No. 84 (June, 2000)
Law: Published Opinions
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United States v. 99.66 Acres of
Land, 970 F.2d 651, 22 Envtl. L. Rep. 21,369, 36 Fed.
R. Evid. Serv. 341 (9th Cir., 1992) Question Presented: Whether the failure to allow
statistical evidence of land value violated the just compensation clause of the Fifth Amendment of
the United States Constitution.
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- Baker v. Clover, 177 Ariz. 37, 864 P.2d 1069 (Ariz.App.Div. 2, 1993) Question
Presented: Whether a legitimate expectation of privacy exists
- in an open connected garage facing a public thoroughfare so as to implicate the
Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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- Williams-Carter v. Maricopa County, 183 Ariz. 338, 903 P.2d 646
(Ariz.App.Div. 2,
1995) Question Presented: Whether denial of an application for the position of Clerk of the
County Board of Supervisors due to political affiliation constitutes an impermissible political test
in violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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- Johnson v. Hispanic Broadcasters Inc., 196 Ariz. 597 (App.), 2 P.3d_687_ (2000)
Question Presented: Whether an employment contract with a make-good provision for a
guaranteed first year income is a contract for a fixed term.
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Professional Activities
Lectures and Colloquia
- "God as a Philosopher," Philosophy Colloquium, State University of New York
at Binghamton, March 19, 1968.
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- "Marxism and the Social Sciences," Interdisciplinary Faculty
Seminar,
Bradley University, February 23, 1971.
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- "The Philosophy of Play," DePaul University Colloquium on
Play, April 1, 1972.
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- "Homeostatic Mechanisms in North American Culture," debate with E.
Z. Friedenberg, Bradley University, April 20, 1972.
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- "Play and Possibility," Philosophy Colloquium, Georgia State
University,
March 6, 1974.
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- "Dewey's Contribution to the Failure of the Genteel Tradition," Society for
the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, Vanderbilt University, March 8, 1974.
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- "General Systems Theory, the Life Sciences, and the Concept of a
Person,"
Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, May 30, 1974.
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- "Entropy, Information, and the Evolution of Science," Philosophy
Colloquium, University of Arizona, October 16, 1974.
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- "Limiting Science," Colloquium Paper, American Philosophical Association,
eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 29, 1974.
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- "American Pragmatism Before and After 1898," with Max
Fisch, Opening
Plenary Session, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Loyola
University, New Orleans, March 5, 1976.
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- "Peirce's Early Speculations on the Categories," Charles S. Peirce
Bicentennial International Congress, Amsterdam, June 16-20, 1976.
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- "Punishment or Rehabilitation," debate with Jeffrie G. Murphy on
program "Crime and Punishment Reconsidered, Tucson Public Library Series, June
30, 1977.
- "Peirce and the Foundations of Semiotic," Semiotic Society of America Meeting,
Denver, October 13, 1977.
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"Teleology and Intelligibility," Colloquium Paper, American Philosophical Association,
Pacific Division, San Diego, March 24, 1979.
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- "Transcendental Semiotic," Charles S. Peirce Society
Meeting/Semiotic Society of
America Meeting, University of Indiana, Bloomington, October 6, 1979.
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- "Peirce and the Philosophy of History," Charles S. Peirce Society
Meeting/APA
Meeting, Philadelphia, December 29, 1981.
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- "Romantic Science and the Future of the Knowing Subject," First Annual Conference on
Philosophy of Science: Limits of Scientific Knowledge, University of Pittsburgh, October
15-16, 1982.
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- "Can Peirce's Categories Be Sustained?" Roundtable discussion with Charles
Hartshorne, World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, August 26, 1983.
Research and Editorial Work
- Peirce Edition Project, 1974-1982. Prepared Peirce's early manuscripts for publication in
a new edition. Contributing Editor, Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological
Edition, Vol 1, 1857-1866, Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1982.
- Editor, Nature and System: Philosophical Studies of Natural and Artificial
Systems, 1978-1984.
- Editorial Board, Clio: Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, History, and Philosophy
of History, 1981-1983; Systems Research, 1982-1986; Peirce Studies, 1979-1985.
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